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3 Overlooked Ways to Get Hundreds of Links and Prospects to
Your Blog

Did you know that there are free ways that you can get links
back to your blog overnight? That after a few days they can
number in the hundreds?

No matter what you market on the internet at some point you'll
face the issue of increasing the number of visitors to your site.
What most people don't know is that there are literally hundreds
of ways to get free traffic. Here we'll focus on three overlooked
ways to get additional traffic to your site using a blog.

The third most overlooked way to bring traffic to your site with
a blog is to read and comment on other blogs.

Now, maybe you've done this before but stopped, because
you're
becoming concerned about being considered a link-spammer. In
that case, leave a link to your site after your comments, instead
of in the comment form that hot links it.

In the near future, blogmasters will be able to use special code
to prevent spam in their comments section, so this will become
less of a concern.

What you want to do via commenting is to enter the blog community
that corresponds to your target market. Get to know who the
players are and make agreements with them to cycle traffic
between you.

Or lurk to find out where your target market typically hangs out
when they're online - you'd be surprised at how many inexpensive
and targeted advertising sources you can find through this
method.

(If you're looking to get linked, there's another way that we'll
go over next.)

This tip alone has earned me a few dozen links from prominent
blogs in the past four days alone.

These links are worth ten times a reciprocal link because they
send targeted traffic from established sources, and come from
experts with records of proven results.

You can be sure these kinds of people will check you out before
they linked to you, since they may be judged by the quality of
the information they share.

The second method to more blog traffic is the most confusing for
newer people, and this is probably the reason its benefits remain
overlooked.

In the simplest of terms, Trackback is kind of a remote
commenting system that incorporates linking. It allows the reader
to follow a topic around the web to see other bloggers remark on
the same subject. It enables the publisher to remotely cite
references to the issue on which they've written.

Once you've made yourself familiar with the blogging community
you have entered, you can often pick up the pulse of
conversations within your site's theme. Then, when you see issues
that you want to expound on, you can send the other site a
notification to let them know you cited them on your blog. That
link will appear on their site, and often draws visitors to
you.
Bloggers who use Trackback often enjoy greater control over
this function in their blogs than they do over linking, as they
have the option to reject your reference - so there is a lesser
incidence of fraudulent linking. That also gives your link a
greater chance of being displayed.

So why don't more people use Trackback?

One reason is that what is arguably the most popular free blog
system, Blogger, doesn't have Trackback. However, Haloscan.com
can remedy this with their free service - it's a cut and paste
away.

Many new bloggers don't get what it is and how it differs from
commenting. And of course, the dynamics of it are a little more
complex than I've stated. But learn to use Trackback properly,
and you won't need to beg for links to your site ever again.

It's harder to estimate an exact number of visitors that come as
a result of trackback links. But if you posted five days out of
seven, and was able to get a trackback link to your site three
times a week, by the end of the year you'd have almost 150
topical links back to your site, which are more valued by search
engines than a typical link trade with an unrelated site.

The most overlooked source of traffic for a blog is through
article submission. To start with, turn your longer posts into
articles and submitting them to ezines or directories. Look
especially for directories that ask for the direct link to the
article on your own site, and input the permanent link to the
post on your blog.

Make sure that your Auto-Discovery tag is in place and it can
mean hundreds more prospects, links and subscribers.

It's a shame this is the one of the least used traffic methods
for most sites, let alone for blogs. In four days, this method
generated just over 1000 visitors. 157 newsletter leads, 98 new
feed subscribers, and 206 links to my site. You may not get these
same results right away, but using these simple strategies can
still get you more exposure than you have now.

These aren't normally the highest quality links, as they rarely
make sure of anchor text. However, bloggers are citing me using
Trackback, sometimes in lieu of linking to the site where they
originally found the article.

To see this in action, do a search on "Can A Ping Really Help
Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings", the title of an
article I submitted earlier this week.

That article was published within a week of this one- the results
speak for themselves. Many of these sites aren't the ones where
my articles are normally published.

There are, of course, plenty of other ways you can leverage the
content in your blog or RSS feed to increase the traffic to your
site. The methods outlined here may be a bit outside the norm,
but, as you'll soon find, that's part of the reason they are so
effective.

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